The Kitchen - Caramel

The Kitchen CARAMEL SAUCE Caramel Stage 1 Semolina Caramel Porridge Breakfast CARAMEL Click to Enlarge ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT The caramel sauce turned out really, really nice. Recipe here. Keep an eye on the sugar, though. Mine had gone a bit smoky and I thought it was ruined, but I kept going, adding the butter, cream and Vanilla essence, to see how it would turn out. Maybe because mine was a tad overdone, it tastes more like toffee ... but it's still really good. Runny while still warm and sort of thickens right up in the refrigerator (without setting completely). Good to pour on anything.  Hey, I might have some on natural yoghurt, to see what that tastes like.  Bonus is, it would probably make a lovely gift in a decorative jar. Trying not to eat it all, but it's hard abstaining when it's soooooooo good ...   ;) Click to Enlarge Vindaloo is simmering.  Chicken thigh fillets this time.  Didn't enjoy the prep at all.  Felt a chore.   Hands are painfully burning.  Somehow got chilli on them again. Soaked my dry chillies this time & then blitzed them, they way you would preparing Rendang.  Something has also got into my eyes, they're sort of burning or stinging as well.  Don't know how I've managed that.  Chilli's very potent.  Hoping I didn't go overboard with the chillies again.  Think I might have, but we can always have the curry with yoghurt if the Vindaloo's a super-hottie. Vindaloo is probably the easiest curry you can do, so the task isn't that bothersome.  I think it was just annoying having to focus on cooking when I was in the middle of doing some reading I was getting into.   Having to make the attention switch is unpleasant.  *Ouch.  Very hot.  Nose running.  Eyes just about tearing.  But it's good.  Can't remember how many chillies that was:  several dried chillies, good TBSP or so chilli flakes, plus chilli powder.  LOL I've got to go easy on this stuff. Raita:  grated cucumber, garlic, natural yoghurt, toasted cumin seeds, salt & pepper + some dried mint (no fresh here). All sorts of things can go in Raita.  Some put in onion, tomato, bell peppers etc.  I like garlic, so it's garlic in this one.